Arthur Boyars

Arthur Boyars (28 May 1925 – 6 August 2017)[1] was a British poet and musicologist, who was also a translator and critic, literary editor and publisher.

He started the small magazine Mandrake in 1946 with John Wain while at Wadham College, Oxford,[2][3] subtitled "An Oxford Review";[4] it was published until 1957.

He became the second husband of Marion Lobbenberg, who formed a partnership with John Calder in the publishing house Calder & Boyars.

Boyars's name is associated with the Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko.

[6] In 2011 Boyars published a limited edition of his own poetry, Dictations: Selected Poems 1940–2009, which was described by the critic Alberto Manguel as "Dantesque".